Military / weapons, police, bailiffs, pyramid scheme grifts, wellness grifts, petrochemicals, mining, financial services (unless it was something like a credit union)
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I don't think any reasonable person would actually turn down their weight in gold for one unpleasant day of work, unless there was a high probability of grievous injury or death to themselves or others.
But if we're just being hyperbolic, I deliberately never worked in the food industry. I knew if I worked in food somewhere, I would get sick if it and never want to eat there again.
I think you could do almost anything for a day. One day is "Here's Jim, he's new, and we are going to show him how we do things here" stuff where little actual work happens.
A month would be a more realistic situation. I wouldn't want to be military in an active war zone, work for a drug/trafficking cartel, or any other dangerous profession where the likelihood of dying or going to prison is high. Or professions where I'd have to actively harm people.
There are professions where one day on the job is enough to leave marks.
First thing that comes to my mind is something military-like or something that involves killing People (innocent or not).
I'm a big guy so my weight in gold is pretty compelling tbh.
I'd probably do anything not deadly or grievously injuring for $7.5M in gold in one day.
I just checked, I'm thinking about almost 9m USD for this here dad bod ๐
Come on, give us something precise.
Crossing the street is potentially deadly or grievously injuring and yet we do it every day. And for free!
I guess I mean anything nearly guaranteed to risk grievous injury like getting hit by a bus or something. If I can still use the 7.5mil after the day's over I'll do it all.
IDF member
Isn't military service compulsory in Israel?
Cold-call telemarketing
I did that. It was amazing how many people tried to make it into some kind of sex call.
Elon Musk's assistant.
No you could fuck with him so hard it would be worth it.
Joke answer: retail
Serious answer: anything that took me more than 50 ft above the ground
a days work for 80 kg of gold? I'll do anything
Police, mining, executioner, anything to do with fossil fuels, factory farming, surgery, human trafficking, drug trafficking, maybe prostitution.
Sex work for sure. Anything illegal really. Would stress me out.
Cell tower or wind turbine repair.
That could actually be fun.
Have at it. A big nope from me. I watched a couple of videos of guys climbing those things and working on them and about died of anxiety. Even with all the proper safety gear, I'm sure I'd get a ways up and just freeze in fear.
I'd rather take on some of the other "nopes" in this thread; military or law enforcement. I could be a lazy ass do nothing cop for a day. Seems to work for quite a few cops.
I respect that.
For some reason I can't explain, I find myself more attracted by intense situations as I grow older, which goes completely against all basic rules of self preservation.